scientists say that average global temperatures in the past year were the hottest on record. this is italy, during one of its warmest winters ever. cancer waiting times in england last year were the worst on record — around 100,000 didn't start treatment early enough. the famous restaurants being targeted by fraudsters who're registering new companies in their names. hundreds of thousands of people in the uk stammer — we report on the scientists who are trying to find out why. and iceland's volcano erupts again for the third time in as many months. coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news, we'll have the draw for the nations league — scotland in the top tier for the first time and the only home nation that can win the trophy.

good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. sir keir starmer has confirmed that labour is ditching a pledge to spend £28 billion a year on environmental projects if it wins the general election. enviromental groups have called the move shortsighted, and the conservatives have described it as a major u—turn on a flagship policy. but speaking to the bbc, sir keir said the target had to be scaled back because the conservatives had crashed the economy. 0ur political editor chris mason is in westminster good evening, sophie. labour, two and a half years ago made this promise of spending £28 billion per year on green investment projects. then last summer they diluted the promise. in recent weeks and months they have been going a bit wobbly about whether they were keeping the promise or not. and today they have a lob to that number into a skip. 28

billion is becoming about 5 billion. they say that £5 billion would be paid for, half by borrowing, half by extending a windfall tax on energy providers, and they are trying to make an argument that a lot of what i have already committed to in terms of policy will actually stay. but make no mistake, this is quite a big moment. this is quite the reverse from labour. in the last hour or so i have been talking to keir starmer in a rather soggy london. this is what the man who wants to be prime minister sounds like as he junks a headline promise. keir starmer, let's be clear, what are you beginning today and what are you keeping? you beginning today and what are you keein: ? , , . ., keeping? every single commitment that we've made _ keeping? every single commitment that we've made that _ keeping? every single commitment that we've made that is _ keeping? every single commitment that we've made that is on - keeping? every single commitment that we've made that is on the - that we've made that is on the table is staying. the warm homes commitment is down, that will scaled take a bit longer. but everything else is exactly as announced. what we are announcing today is that we won't be making further investments,

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which now have a severe lack of snow. scientists say urgent action is needed right now to reduce carbon emissions. so what can be done? 0ur climate editor, justin rowlatt, joins me now from cardiff. you may remember that world leaders are back in paris in 2015 said temperatures should not breach 1.5 celsius. well, they have done, but only for a year. the paris commitment was a long—term average, a single year with average global temperatures 1.5 degrees before they were before the industrial revolution does not mean the paris commitment has been broken, but it showsjust commitment has been broken, but it shows just how close we are getting to the 1.5 degrees boundary. you can see that on this graph. the grey lines their show average global temperatures over every year since 1940. the dark line should be coming up 1940. the dark line should be coming up now and shows this year's temperatures. back in the summer, temperatures. back in the summer, temperatures pushed beyond 1.5

degrees above pre—industrial levels and stayed there pretty much all the way through to the end of january. why is that 1.5 boundary so important? because scientific research shows every increment of a degree above 1.5 is expected to bring ever greater climate impact. now take a look at this. it's a graph you are probably already familiar with. graph you are probably already familiarwith. it graph you are probably already familiar with. it shows the rise in average global temperatures since 1942 this new peak ofjust over 1.5 degrees above pre—industrial levels, and the trend is very clear. so, why is this happening? the main driver is this happening? the main driver is climate change caused by the vast quantities of greenhouse gases human activity producers. and it got an extra oomph this year from el nino, a recurring weather event in the pacific ocean which drives up global temperatures a tad. so what can we do about it? i've been to see a project in the scottish highlands that could help the entire uk cut

its carbon emissions. take a look at this. this is where the electricity company sse plans a £2 billion water battery. the hydroelectric plant, the biggest engineering project in the highlands since the �*40s, will store excess renewable power. so, here is the plan. they are going to build a dam 92 metres high and 600 metres long, across the end of the glen to create a huge reservoir. but here is the really clever bit. the whole project is designed to exploit the key weakness of renewable energy sources like wind and solar. they are great when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing. then they often generate so much electricity that the price goes to zero. in fact, there are wind farms here in scotland that are sometimes paid not to supply electricity to the grid. at times like that, turbines will pump water up

to the new reservoir. when it's dark or the wind isn't blowing and electricity is scarce, the water can be released, spinning the turbines to generate enough electricity to power three million uk homes for 24 hours. the benefits are that the consumer, the uk consumers, are going to save money. we are going to use less oil and gas to match supply with demand, which is good for everyone and helps us achieve our climate goals. sse has already spent £100 million digging this tunnel. but heavy engineering like this does not come cheap. and the breakthrough has been finding a way to give investors confidence in the finances of a project that could still be running in 100 years' time. now, the government doesn't want to put in any public cash, so the plan is to create a floor, a guarantee of minimum revenues. but, in return, it will also impose

a cap on prices to make sure the project doesn't make too much profit. and more projects like this will be needed as the switch to renewable power continues. sse says once the funding mechanism is finalised, it will press ahead with britain's biggest battery. justin rowlatt, bbc newsm the scottish highlands. cancer waiting times in england were the worst on record last year, with around 100,000 patients having to wait more than 62 days to start lifesaving treatment. 0ur health editor hugh pym is here. how concerning is this? it is an absolutely key target for the nhs, somebody needing cancer treatment after a referral should start it within 62 days. on the percentage within the target, which is 85%, has been steadily falling.

you can see this chart for england. in blue, the numbers who start their treatment within a 62 days. that is pretty static. it's the numbers waiting longer, who didn't start within 62 days, in red, which is the real concern. macmillan cancer support, one of the charities, said the figures are shocking and a desperate situation for patients and theirfamilies. nhs england make the point that what you can see from the graph is that the numbers have been going up and up in terms of the numbers actually being treated, and there was industrial action last year. but i think the problem is this starting treatment. in scotland, wales and northern ireland have had similar issues trying to reach their targets in recent years. the prime minister has accused sir keir starmer of demonstrating "the worst of politics" for "using the tragedy" of the murdered teenager brianna ghey in a house of commons row. the prime ministerfaced criticism after he made a joke about labour's gender policy at prime minister's questions yesterday. esther ghey, the mother of brianna, who was transgender,

was in parliament at the time. ben wright reports. today, rishi sunak, had a choice — apologise for mocking labour's position on trans issues on the day the mother of brianna ghey was visiting parliament, or dig in and defend the point he was making. he chose the latter. i have nothing but the most heartfelt sympathy for her entire family and friends, but to use that tragedy to detract from the very separate and clear point i was making about keir starmer�*s proven track record of multiple u—turns on major policies, because he doesn't have a plan, i think is both sad and wrong. it was during yesterday's prime minister's questions that the row erupted. pensions, planning, peerages. .. listing what rishi sunak claimed were a string of labour policy u—turns, he said this. defining a woman! although, in fairness, that was only 99% of a u—turn! laughter. of all the weeks to say that

when brianna's mother is in this chamber. shame. esther ghey had travelled to parliament, taking a seat in the commons public gallery after that exchange. brianna's father demanded an apology from mr sunak, and today one cabinet minister said both leaders should reflect on their words. politics can be an ugly, bruising business, of course, particularly when people who aren't politicians are drawn into the scrap — in this case, the family of a murdered teenager. but today, neither the prime minister nor sir keir starmer rowed back and continued to blame the other. i think rishi sunak needs to do the decent thing, stop blaming everybody else. he said those words. actually bear some responsibility, do the right thing, which is apologise. for her part, esther ghey said today that she didn't wish to comment about the row and was focused on creating a positive change and a lasting legacy for her daughter. ben wright, bbc news, westminster.

an army veteran is to be charged with murder in connection with the killing of a man during the conflict in northern ireland more than 50 years ago. three other former soldiers are also facing prosecution for attempted murder. the decisions were announced after a police investigation into the activities of an undercover army unit known as the military reaction force. 0ur ireland correspondent chris page reports. it was this bbc panorama programme in 2013 which led to a police inquiry into the military reaction force. members of the small, secretive army units patrolled belfast in unmarked cars at the height of the conflict known as the troubles. it's not revenge that we're after, but it's the truth. pat mcveigh was the eldest of six children who lost their father, patrick. he was shot dead near their home. if my father had have been a gunman, i wouldn't be sitting here today. i would have just said, "well, you live by the sword, you die by the sword."

and that would have been the end of it. but he wasn't a gunman, and he doesn't deserve to have his character assassinated. he deserves someone to be accountable. in the coming weeks, a former soldier is expected to appear in court charged with murder over the killing of patrick mcveigh at this junction in west belfast 52 years ago. three more army veterans are to be charged with attempted murder in relation to another shooting. from may, a new commission is taking over all investigations linked to the troubles. there'll be a conditional amnesty for suspects who provide accurate information. most victims�* groups oppose the plan, but the government says convictions are becoming less likely with the passage of time. this particular situation is now becoming a rarity. and there are also thousands of people out there who do want to get more information about what happened to their loved ones in the course of the troubles. in northern ireland,

the past is personally painful and politically divisive. the prosecutions announced today may be the last connected to the conflict. chris page, bbc news, belfast. the time isjust the time is just after quarter past six. our top story this evening: sir keir starmer tells the bbc he had no choice but to ditch labour's £28 billion a year commitment to green investment. and coming up.... how are you doing, all 0k? they've all gone very quiet! and england captain harry kane's new mission — to get young people thinking about their mental health. and on sportsday in the next 15 minutes on bbc news, we'll head back to ivory coast after last night's cup of nations semifinals, with the hosts and nigeria going head—to—head on sunday to be crowned african champions. the volcano in southwest iceland has just erupted for

the third time since december. the lava is spewing from a long fissure and has reached a crucial road that leads to the already damaged town of grindavik. 0ur science editor, rebecca morrelle, has been looking at why these eruptions keep happening. a fiery start to iceland's day, but these spectacular fountains of lava are causing more disruption on the reykjanes peninsula. a pipeline supplying heat and hot water to 30,000 people has been engulfed by molten rock, it's the third eruption since december, but scientists knew it was coming. now that these eruptions are appeasing themselves, the scientists now have a much better idea of where there is a breaking point for the magma to come through the ground, so they've been tracking how the ground is inflating as magma is coming up from deep, and now they can tell with a lot more certainty when to expect the magma to start breaking through to the ground.

iceland sits on the boundary of two tectonic plates which are pulling apart from each other at 2cm a year. this stretches the earth's crust — its outer layer — making it thinner, which affects the type of eruption. this isn't a cone—shaped volcano, like italy's mount etna, where the lava comes out of more or less the same place. instead, on the reykjanes peninsula, the magma is loosely held over a much larger area, and it forces its way up through cracks — orfissures — that run in lines and can be miles long. this map shows the fissures created since december, and the latest one is over here — it opened up in the same area. a road into the town of grindavik has been swallowed up, but this time the town itself has been spared. but a major concern is a nearby geothermal power station. sensors have detected the land around it lifting as magma flows underground. barriers have been built

to try and protect this vital infrastructure. the last series of eruptions in this area happened 800 years ago, and they lasted for decades. so do scientists think the same thing is happening now? there is evidence for about three of these types of episodes in the last 4,000 years in this area. so this is proceeding as expected at the moment. what we're expecting is a series of these relatively small, relatively short—lived eruptions pushing out lava flows through fissures and building up the peninsula further. researchers are closely monitoring the area. they're learning more with every eruption. the question is, how long will this new era of volcanic activity last? scientists think it could be many years — or even centuries. rebecca morelle, bbc news. scammers are targeting some of britain's best—known restaurants run by celebrity chefs, including heston blumenthal and yotam 0ttolenghi. what the fraudsters are doing

is creating and then registering fake companies, using slightly different spelling. once registered, they can open bank accounts, apply for loans, even order from suppliers. the bbc has discovered that more than 750 fake firms have been registered in the last six weeks. here's our home affairs correspondent tom symonds. michelin—starred chef alexis gauthier has run his restaurant for 14 years. but last month, someone cloned it. they created a company from scratch, at companies house, and what was really surprising was he managed to put this company at the same address as my restaurant. more than 700 other cloned restaurants, including heston blumenthal�*s, have been registered with slight misspellings. even the ritz, established 1906, has a clone registered 2024. the central problem — companies house doesn't

have the powers to check companies illegitimate. graham barrow, who shared his data exclusively with the bbc, has become an expert in spotting the clones. for the last 20 or 30 years, while there's been this rise of identity theft and the requirement for all of us to provide our bills and our passports and our driving licence, even if you want to get a library ticket from your local council, companies house requires none of that. restaurants told us they've received letters suggesting fraudsters are setting up bank accounts online, using their addresses, and withdrawing the overdraft, stealing from the banks. how much are they losing? i don't know in absolute terms, but i can tell you it's definitely millions. but to set up fake companies, you need fake directors. one of the directors has 39 fake restaurants to his name, registered at a flatjust here. we're waiting for him to come home to see what he has to say. eventually, we found stephen — he's a chef. he has hearing impairment and

no idea why his name's been used. so this is the registration of all the companies that you are a director of at companies house. it's funny how i'm a director, i've never been any director. you've never been a director? never. his identity�*s been stolen. hello, ma'am, _ can i talk to mr stephen? can i talk to mr stephen? i'm calling from electric gas department. restaurants are even getting cold calls for him. that is crazy. to be honest, that gets me really upset. companies house said next month it will get new powers and plans in the longer term to make company directors verify their identity. but removing a fake company from the register is a total pain, even for an experienced businessman like alexis. for stephen, with 39 cloned companies, it's daunting. tom symonds, bbc news. hundreds of thousands of people in britain have a stammer, but scientists still don't know what causes it.

now researchers are carrying out tests to try to work out what makes people stammer in the hope of finding new treatments. three years ago, felicity baker, who herself has a stammer — made a documentary for the bbc about the impact it has on people's lives. now she's been finding out about this new research. just so you know, i have a stammer. for people who stammer, every word matters. i always found it hard to say the word meaning "the next day", and i try and say t—t—t—t...tomorrow. i have a st—ammer... aiden has stammered all of his life. now he wants answers. there's still quite a few un...known questions about the causes and potential t—t—treatment. so when i heard about the fact that there was this research happening in oxford, i was quite happy to take part

and help out with it. your task is to memorise these words and to speak them out loud... scientists are measuring brain activity in people who stammer. they're trying to understand what happens in the moments before they speak. the team is also using virtual reality to understand why people seem to stammer less when they're alone. we've got a spaceman, a mosquito and a horned character. when aiden played this game, he hardly stammered at all. they are immersed with - this working memory t—task. we want them to...verbalise while doing it. _ when they are focused, . they become more fluent. growing up as a person who stammered, i always wanted to know what caused it. could the answer lie in my d—dna? ironically, that's a word

i find very hard to say. at university college london, scientists are also investigating whether stammering is in our genes. this machine will run all the processes of dna isolation. the samples will be compared with people all around the world. we are trying to find out about the biology underneath the stammering, because we're interested in what are the little pieces of the puzzle in the brain that are not quite synchronised when people speak, and that would explain why people are less fluent. and by understanding the biology, we understand better perhaps how to support treatment in the future. stammering has a huge impact on people's lives. many learn how to hide it. i didn't really start to tell family until my 405, actually, and even though my sister is a speech therapist, i didn't tell her till i was 40. 0thers often avoid words they know they can't say — sometimes even their own name.

i've even had moments where i've not called myself peter. i said hi, i've introduced myself as michael. and that's the most unbelievable feeling, like, "what am i doing?" science may well provide answers in the future. until then, more acceptance should ensure every voice is heard. felicity baker, bbc news. parkrun has suddenly deleted all gender, age and course records from its website in the wake of a row over trans athletes holding female records. parkrun says the move is simply about making the free 5k runs, which take place in hundreds of parks across the uk every saturday morning, less off—putting to new entrants. the move follows criticism for allowing transgender women to compete in the female category. we'll have a full report on that story with our correspondent natalie pirks on the news at ten tonight.

after a record—breaking start to life on the pitch at bayern munich, england captain harry kane is now focusing on matters off the pitch, with a mission to get young people thinking about their mental health. 0ur reporter alex howell has been talking to him in munich. welcome to munich — the home of beer, bayern, and england's all—time leading goal—scorer. cheers for doing this, harry, good to see you again. good to see you, too. now settled in his new city, harry kane tells the bbc how happy he is with his start in germany. when i made the move, i was excited by it, but of course a little bit nervous as well on how it was going to go. so i've been really proud with the way i've started. so now i've got my wife and kids here since the new year, you know, they're settled in school, they're doing really well. and kane is going to go for it! has he beaten schuhen?! oh, i don't believe that! you've got 24 goals, level with lewandowski and gerd muller,

a couple of bayern munich legends — things couldn't be any better, could they? extremely proud to have those sorts of records. it's not something i set out to do at the start, but once you hear about them and once people are talking about them, it of course means you're doing something really well. so i'm hoping i can even improve from the first half of the season. for all his success on the pitch, harry kane cares as much about matters of it. how are you doing? you all 0k? the england captain's foundation has partnered up with mental health charity bounce forward... what would harry definitely do before he started? ..providing 17 schools across england with lesson plans and resources to nurture physical and mental resilience. being a father, i look at their future and the world they're coming into, and, of course, with social media and a lot of online stuff nowadays, mental health is a really big thing, and it's important to be able to talk about your feelings and what you're going through. he's missed it! kane has had to show those qualities over the last few years, with disappointment for england

at the last two major tournaments — something he believes can change. we come so close in the last euros, you know, we've definitely got that bit between our teeth to try and go that one step further. but, as always, it's hard to win major tournaments on that international stage. with domestic, personal and international accolades up for grabs, kane is hoping lifting a trophy here will be the start of a year to remember. alex howell, bbc news, munich. there were snowy scenes here in the peak district today. several parts of northern england, north wales and scotland saw snowfall today, with heavy rain elsewhere. there will be several snow and ice warnings in force for various parts of the country until saturday. the met office has said affected areas could see disruption such as travel delays and power cuts. time for a look at the weather, here's elizabeth rizzini. hello, thank you, sophie. we start

with another winter wonderland picture from hebden bridge in west yorkshire, the snow will not last, it will be looking very different through the next couple of days. staffordshire, really strong gusty winds, 47 mph earlier, you cannot say that from this pretty picture. but this is the radar pictures showing where we had snow today, marked in white of course, most over elevation, the peaks and the pennines, just pushing into southern scotland as we had through tonight. most of the snowfall will be across the hills as we had through tonight, possibly still some travel disruption, gusty winds, drifting snow perhaps, running towards the south. there will be very heavy rain with that milder across england and wales through the first part of the night, pushing northwards, wintriness over the pennines, strong gusty easterly winds across scotland. some wintriness across northern ireland, watch out for icy stretches from northern england northwards, but these temperatures will be rising somewhat through the

night. now, tomorrow is more of the